Lesson: When we allow God to work out His plan for our lives, joy and thanksgiving will be measured in our hearts.
DISCUSSION STARTERS
- Review the thought starter at the beginning of the chapter. What thoughts were started?
- Review the lead Bible verse. What does it say to you? Did you observe yourself in relation to the verse? Did you observe others in relation to the verse? Did you find any additional verses?
- What is your response to the lesson at the end of the chapter?
- Would you say there are circumstances when joy would be an inappropriate response?
- What is keeping you from experiencing joy right now?
- How is it possible to pray without ceasing?
- Share with us how God handled one of your prayers.
- Can you think of anything you do “without ceasing” in the normal course of living?
- Read Philippians 4:12-13. Are there any instances when you learned what is described in these verses?
- Do you face an unwanted difficulty? What is there about it to be thankful for?
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¹Ruth Paxton, Wealth, Walk, Warfare of the Christian (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming Revell, 1939), n.p.
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